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Beginning in the Middle:

Introducing the Schulwerk to


Upper Elementary and Middle
School Students

Presented by
Michelle Barnes
Oaklandon Elementary School
Indianapolis, Indiana
Welcome Canon

Concept: Canon

Based on Music for Children, Volume I


page 91 #5
G A
F
E
D
C
B
A
F G
E
D
C
Can you set up your xylophone in
C pentatonic?
Keetman’s Rhythmic Building
Bricks

apple cantaloupe strawberry watermelon peach


monkey elephant anteater alligator bear

Possibilities for using rhythmic building bricks:


Echo patterns
Question and Answer
Ostinato patterns to be used for accompanying
melodies
Basis for improvisation and composition
Soda Pop Rondo

Concept:
Quarter and Eighth Note Rhythms

Based on Rhythmische Übung #5


Can you clap every time you say MOUNTAIN DEW?
Can you snap every time you say SPRITE?
Can you pat every time you say COCA-COLA?
Can you stomp every time you say PEPSI?
Can you do the entire piece without the pictures?

What do you mean NO?


Sure you can…just remember to:

Clap on Mountain Dew


Pat on Coca-cola
Snap on Sprite
Stomp on Pepsi

THAT WAS AWESOME!!!! CAN YOU DO IT


AGAIN WITHOUT SAYING THE WORDS?
In groups of 4, complete the following
tasks:
1. Assemble your four soda pop rhythms
in any order
2. Decide on body percussion for each
soda pop (you DO NOT have to use the
same ones we did as a class)
3. Make sure EVERYONE in your group
can perform your soda pop composition
4. Be ready to perform your composition
for the class
Give Me Some Chocolate!

Concepts: triple meter and hexatonic

Based on Rhythmische Übung #61


Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece,
really need a piece,
really need a piece right now!
Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece,
really need a piece
or I’LL SCREAM!
Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece,
really need a piece right now!
Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece or
I’LL SCREAM!

Can you STOMP on all the words in RED?


Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece,
really need a piece right now!
Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece or
I’LL SCREAM!

Can you CLAP on all the words in BLUE?


Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a
piece, really need a piece right
now!
Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a
piece or I’LL SCREAM!
Can you PAT on all the words that are left?
How many notes are in the
pentatonic scale?

THAT’S CORRECT…THERE ARE FIVE NOTES!

HOW MANY NOTES ARE IN THE


HEXATONIC SCALE?

THAT’S CORRECT…THERE ARE SIX NOTES!


G A
F
E
D
C
B
A
F G
E
D
C
Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece,
really need a piece right now!
Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece or
I’LL SCREAM!

Play from D’ to E on
“Give me some chocolate”
Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece,
really need a piece right now!
Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece or
I’LL SCREAM!

Add a D on “I”
Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece,
really need a piece right now!
Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece or
I’LL SCREAM!

Play E on the 1st “really need a piece”


Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece,
really need a piece right now!
Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece or
I’LL SCREAM!

Play F on the 2nd “really need a piece”


Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece,
really need a piece right now!
Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece or
I’LL SCREAM!

Play G on the 3rd “really need a piece”


Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece,
really need a piece right now!
Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece or
I’LL SCREAM!

Play A and C’ “right now”


Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece,
really need a piece right now!
Give me some chocolate!
Give me some chocolate!
I really need a piece, really need a piece or
I’LL SCREAM!

Play A C’ D’ on “I’ll SCREAM”


Kit Kat Almond Joy York Patty Hershey’s Kisses Twix
Lunch Time

Concepts: complimentary rhythms and ostinato

Based on Music for Children, Volume I page 56 #3


I’m very hungry now!
Just hear my stomach growl!
I think I’m gonna faint!
Help me!
Gotta eat, I can’t wait!
Can’t you hear my belly ache?
Gotta eat, I can’t wait!
What’s for lunch today?
Cobbler, Cobbler

Concept: Dorian mode

Based on Music for Children, Volume IV page 46 #1


Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe
and get it done by half past two!
Half past two, much too late,
Get it done by half past eight!
Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe and

get it done by half past two!

Half past two, much too late,

Get it done by half past eight!


Can you figure out the melody for
“cobbler, cobbler mend my shoe and”?
Can you figure out the melody for
“get it done by half past two”?
Can you figure out the melody for
“half past two, much too late”?
Can you figure out the melody for
“get it done by half past eight”?
Little Miss Muffet:
What Really Happened

Concept: Syncopation
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Licking an ice cream cone.
Along came a spider,
Who dangled beside her—
She told him to go get his own!
Can you clap on all the red words?

Little Miss Muffet


Sat on a tuffet,
Licking an ice cream cone.
Along came a spider,
Who dangled beside her—
She told him to go get his own!
Three Blind Mice

Concepts: Lydian mode

Based on Rhythmische Ubung #40


Three blind mice
running in the kitchen.
Three blind mice
running to and fro.
See how they run and they run
and they run
From the farmer’s wife and her big
knife.
Can you walk your mallets down
from high F to low F (not
skipping any notes)?
Can you walk your
mallets down from high F
to low F again, but skip
high E?

What part of the rhyme do


you think this melody will
fit?
Say the rhyme and put
the melody you just
played in the correct
spot.
Add F’ C’ F each time you
say “Three Blind Mice”
Add G A G A B on “running
in the kitchen” and “running
to and fro”
Can you figure out this melody for “See
how they run and they run and they run
from the”?

B
A
G
F
THANK YOU!

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